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Steel Billet said:
why are all of them so jewishly expensive?
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My personal theory is that because they are used in USA college courses, the publishers know that people will just get a student loan to buy them (since they have to, to pass their course), so they push the price up. No idea how correct that is though.
 
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Steel Billet said:
I've somehow never had any interaction with lisp. Why is it good/bad?
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It is good because the parsing logic is crystal clear and it is designed so that your code can be fully self-documenting, as either a language feature already exists in Lisp or it's basically trivial to implement.

It is bad ((because ((it (((involves a) bunch) of) seemingly extraneous) parentheses) and some people cannot even into that) but formatting and indents and whatnot really clarify when you know how to read it).
 
invisibult plus+ said:
If any of you are frontend developers, someone came up with a text measurement algorithm using TypeScript. Xitter fucking sucks.
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That's really nice. I ran into this problem a few months ago and I'm surprised this hasn't been made before. Exposes a minimal, clean API too and it does not seem to ruin accessibility or depend on nasty browser-specific quirks.
Goes to show how dated, yet versatile the Web APIs are.
 
Lard Shart said:
That's really nice. I ran into this problem a few months ago and I'm surprised this hasn't been made before. Exposes a minimal, clean API too and it does not seem to ruin accessibility or depend on nasty browser-specific quirks.
Goes to show how dated, yet versatile the Web APIs are.
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My main concern with any of this would be performance on a wide variety of devices, but this would be more performant than the usual ways you'd do real time moving text in your browser.
 
Steel Billet said:
Actually, on the topic of this book, and other old programming (and mathematics) books, why are all of them so jewishly expensive? It surely can't cost that much to print it?
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Zeftax said:
My personal theory is that because they are used in USA college courses, the publishers know that people will just get a student loan to buy them (since they have to, to pass their course), so they push the price up. No idea how correct that is though.
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Like with prescription prices, vet bills, etc. you either pay up or get fucked. The price they charge is the maximum they believe they can charge without completely losing business.
 
Steel Billet said:
Actually, on the topic of this book, and other old programming (and mathematics) books, why are all of them so jewishly expensive? It surely can't cost that much to print it?
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A student is more than likely required to buy a university level book for the specific purpose so no matter how much it's price they'll have to suck it up, this is in contrast to any other book, where the book needs to convince you to buy it and therefore is almost bargaining with you about it's price and contents.
America you can at least get away with pirating the book and printing it out but in places like Egypt, I remember a friend of mine telling me how your professors will require their own book for the class and snitch on you to the police if you pirate it or flunk you if you flat out don't buy it.
 
Frightened Rabbit said:
in places like Egypt, I remember a friend of mine telling me how your professors will require their own book for the class and snitch on you to the police if you pirate it or flunk you if you flat out don't buy it.
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I regret to inform you that this is not specific to Egypt. US professors do this too, with less snitching to police but more shuffling the order of exercises every revision to make the old torrents useless for their class.
 
Frightened Rabbit said:
My main concern with any of this would be performance on a wide variety of devices, but this would be more performant than the usual ways you'd do real time moving text in your browser.
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Yes. The danger of this library is that it has use cases on (what should be) static pages, like for articles with inline images. It could give someone a reason to require JavaScript on their otherwise pure static web pages. I doubt however it will significantly impact the performance of sites that are more likely to use this library, namely already fucked sites like Medium or Substack, with a Chrome Lighthouse score of 61/100 and 26/100 respectively. For reference a JavaScript-free static article page can easily get a 100/100 score.
 
y a t s said:
Like with prescription prices, vet bills, etc. you either pay up or get fucked. The price they charge is the maximum they believe they can charge without completely losing business.
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Not just prescription drugs, but also over-the-counter drugs. For a long time, most OTC sleeping pills were just double-strength Benadryl sold at four times the price. Why? Because you can suffer through allergies, but if you aren't getting sleep you're over the barrel and they're going to take advantage.

Likewise, lice spray was just standard tick repellant (0.5% permethrin) sold at twice the price for a can half the size (once again, four times markup.) Why? Because if tick repellant is too expensive, you can take your vacation at the beach instead of in the woods, but if your kids have lice you need to do something about it and they're taking advantage. (I guess too many people realized this, so the lice sprays have been reformulated but are undoubtedly still price-gouging.)
 
Nitro! said:
The Pragmatic Programmer & The Mythical Man-Month are both very good reads. They are rooted in the "old" ways ('70s & '80s) of doing things so it will raise your expectations of the software engineering process if you take it to heart, reader beware.
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I hope you are not lying because I just spent my hard earned google play point(real) to buy these.
 
McKennai said:
Any good reads on how not to throw yourself of a roof instead of maintaining a python stack?
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my friend here is being very good with snakes for many years. he will be giving much good advise in exchange for google play gift card please

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McKennai said:
Any good reads on how not to throw yourself of a roof instead of maintaining a python stack?
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I don't have good reads, but trying to get the pile of shit to pass Mypy without errors has always been a very good first course of action. It's laborious at the beginning because a code base not written with proper type hints tends to light up like a Christmas tree when first exposed to Mypy, but it's worth it.
 
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